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Whoever PM dreamed about this, and whoever UX and developer made it happen, please, perform the following:
Seriously, people, don't you have people around you?
Either remove the sound or create an option to not play it.
@leocg The one Opera produces when showing a "O" banner on startup
Great. After auto-updating itself to 102, now Opera blasts its stupid trumpet sound every time It Starts.
It was annoying enough when it did it on update, but not it does it on every start.
I assume something did not got converted from 101 to 102 fully and it thinks it's starting for the first time after update.
I know, I'm deleting the exe that produces the sound, but still ... Opera team, can you make this update works finally? Pretty please?
@aja66 said in That awful startup sound:
You only have to rename opera_gx_splash.exe to opera_gx_splash_old.exe.
And do this on every update?
@gmiazga I manually downloaded version 102 (did not know about the bug) and it killed my profile .... good job!
I panicked and restored a backup from few days ago before checking the forums for a solution, so I am only about ten tabs behind.
I find this to be very unprofessional and uncool from the Opera team to leave the knowingly bad update on the site without any warnings. I am a developer myself, and my team had to pull out a broken build, so I understand the hard situation you are, but the solution you chose is arguably bad.
I am used to Opera for Android wiping out my state every 6-8 months, but this is the first time Opera for Desktop does it and it hurt a lot.
I have been using Opera for more than 20 years, and even the big Presto -> Blink change could not persuade me to abandon it. But the constant blasting sound on every update and now wasting my time with losing my data really made me starting evaluating other options on the market.
Great. After auto-updating itself to 102, now Opera blasts its stupid trumpet sound every time It Starts.
It was annoying enough when it did it on update, but not it does it on every start.
I assume something did not got converted from 101 to 102 fully and it thinks it's starting for the first time after update.
I know, I'm deleting the exe that produces the sound, but still ... Opera team, can you make this update works finally? Pretty please?
@paul-durham I did not know about session buddy. I'll install it asap. Thanks for the clue!
@gmiazga I manually downloaded version 102 (did not know about the bug) and it killed my profile .... good job!
I panicked and restored a backup from few days ago before checking the forums for a solution, so I am only about ten tabs behind.
I find this to be very unprofessional and uncool from the Opera team to leave the knowingly bad update on the site without any warnings. I am a developer myself, and my team had to pull out a broken build, so I understand the hard situation you are, but the solution you chose is arguably bad.
I am used to Opera for Android wiping out my state every 6-8 months, but this is the first time Opera for Desktop does it and it hurt a lot.
I have been using Opera for more than 20 years, and even the big Presto -> Blink change could not persuade me to abandon it. But the constant blasting sound on every update and now wasting my time with losing my data really made me starting evaluating other options on the market.
@myswtest no worries, mate, eventually the PM will remember Opera has Linux users and you'll be graced with her favorite feature.
It obviously drives customer engagement!
@separatereality I can relate so much!
I have been using Opera since version three, survived the big switch to Blink and the butchering of all useful features of old Opera without a single complain.
Even used Opera Mini with iPad, a very compromised experience.
But that sounds is making me consider switching to Firefox (Vivaldi being too ugly for my taste)
@aja66 said in That awful startup sound:
You only have to rename opera_gx_splash.exe to opera_gx_splash_old.exe.
And do this on every update?
@leocg The one Opera produces when showing a "O" banner on startup
Whoever PM dreamed about this, and whoever UX and developer made it happen, please, perform the following:
Seriously, people, don't you have people around you?
Either remove the sound or create an option to not play it.
Hi Opera team,
As a Windows Insider, my copy of Windows updates quite frequently. Unfortunately, after each update, Opera puts multiple unwanted promotional entries on my speed dial.
I understand your need to make money, but the services you are promoting are irrelevant to me and are a chore to remove instead. Please consider stopping adding these entries Windows upgrades itself.